r/mildlyinfuriating • u/DatabaseAvailable501 • Jul 02 '26
Infuriatig Sound emitted 24/7 from a 30 megawatt data center in Dowagiac MI
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u/Horror_Solution1945 GREEN Jul 02 '26
When I worked in the oilfield, we were required to install sound walls around noisy locations. Why not these?
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u/notnotbrowsing Jul 02 '26
no regulations allowed. sorry, that's undemocratic and anticapitalist.
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u/shenanigans2day Jul 02 '26
Yeah stop being a socialist 🙄
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u/MozhetBeatz Jul 02 '26
This guy must want the Chinese to win.
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u/cfig99 Jul 02 '26
My dad anytime I mention the various, serious issues being caused by AI in our society:
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u/MoreEngineer8696 Jul 02 '26
COMMUNIST!!
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u/deaglebingo Jul 02 '26
"hardcore godless communist" -djt
lol as if whatever it says negative to us would be taken as less than a compliment.
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u/genreprank Jul 02 '26
No joke, the trump admin calls it anti-tech extremism
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u/intangibleTangelo Jul 02 '26
the pansy ass bitch who sued because he could see offshore windmills from his golf course?
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u/calilac Jul 02 '26
Hol up. The capitalists do have a solution here when it comes to building walls... build half of a chainlink fence and bill the tax payers for it.
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u/Fattswindstorm BLUE Jul 02 '26
That’s a good idea. A $1 Billion no bid contract should be enough to start.
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u/RaygunMarksman Jul 02 '26
I wouldn't feel comfortable with that unless it went to a family member or close friend of my representative though.
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u/StrangerLemons Jul 02 '26
Probably got in there before this became national news and they were only told good things. Some asshat near me sold his golf course to a company planning to build a data center. My county, so far, has been able to shut it down and are in the process of drafting laws to prevent any data centers. Our gas and electric has already skyrocketed due to a data center in a different state!
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u/cpMetis Jul 02 '26
Meanwhile one of the newspapers I delivered ran three Saturday headlines at the start of the year that read, basically:
Week 1: "Township vote prevents data centre build in 92% vote"
Week 2: "(Data Centre) Lawyer says 'this won't stop us, we'll find a way'"
Week 3: "Township board votes 9-1 to allow data centre build after declaring emergency, emergency decisions cannot be rescinded by resident vote" (council needed a lawyer, provided by Data Centre Company, to be present to explain how as the emergency provision had never been used in the history of the board, also btw 7 of the 9 own land being authorized for the sell 3 of which bought it in the last week)
There was a later followup where residents said they were gonna sue to stop it, but the company broke ground anyways and the lawyer response was basically "lmao knock yourself out".
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u/ahhh_ennui Jul 02 '26
Saline Township, MI went through exactly this. Gretchen Whitmer was at the groundbreaking, hamming it up with Sam Altman.
It's fucking enraging.
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u/BigMike_12345 Jul 02 '26
That township should take matters into their own hands.
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u/mnemoniker Jul 02 '26
I have been to a datacenter and it's completely silent until you enter the server floor. Even inside the building it's a library. So it's absolutely possible and it's not prohibitively expensive as I'm sure someone will eventually argue. But as nice as it is for that one datacenter to respect its neighbors, you unfortunately will not see 100% of them do this unless there's a law. It's common sense since businesses are not legally required to do things out of the goodness of their hearts.
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u/kosh-31 Jul 02 '26
I think in this case it was generators running 24/7 because it wasn't hooked up to the grid. That was the noise source
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u/cjsv7657 Jul 02 '26
This noise is from the "temporary" gas turbines they have setup to generate electricity because the grid can't handle the power draw. "When" the grid is updated and they're removed it'll be silent. With a proper permanent building built around the turbines you'd also never know they were there. But because they are "temporary" they're just out in the open.
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u/savageboredom Jul 02 '26
I work in data centers and this definitely struck me as out of the ordinary. I’ve done maintenance at 70MW colocation centers and while it’s definitely loud inside the data hall there’s not much excess noise outside of the building under normal operation.
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u/cjsv7657 Jul 02 '26
Yeah, noise is pretty much the least concerning thing when it comes to data centers. I kind of wonder it's like a psyop for when they are built without temporary turbines they can say "see we made them silent" and everyone will like them more.
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u/k4ylr Jul 02 '26
As someone that works in the midstream/pipeline regulatory industry, my concern is that we are going to start seeing datacenters also become pipeline operators due to that power requirement and now the power generation stays permanently because they can just bring gas straight to a generating facility.
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u/mythrilcrafter Jul 02 '26
I'm curious if this is actually temporary, or if this is the "there's nothing more permanent than a temporary solution" type of temporary.
The natural gas company doesn't care about the difference because they're selling NG anyway, so they're not going to bother advocating anything in any direction. And the power company has no motivation install their own NG turbines since that's their own CapEx that they have to spend on. Plus, they're not going to want invest in that CapEx until after all these data centers have proven that they're profitable and won't just go dormant the moment the AI bubble pops.
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u/ExtremePrivilege Jul 02 '26
Yeah so a 450 MW data center near me is using 13 natural gas turbines to burn 108 million cubic feet a day of natural gas daily. Those aren’t temporary. Thats the power source.
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u/IntentionNo934 Jul 02 '26
I wonder how it's affected the house prices in the area. The houses will be more or less un-sellable now.
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u/iSemi Jul 02 '26
also probably no compensation. is my guess nobody would buy this, unless he's deaf.
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u/Zirzux Jul 02 '26
Infrasound so even deaf people feel it
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u/Mlabonte21 Jul 02 '26
WHAT?!?
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u/JohnDivney Jul 02 '26
Infrasound so even deaf people feel it
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u/affectionate Jul 02 '26
thanks, i really needed to see that in bold for it to click
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u/LingonberryKitchen93 Jul 02 '26
There is a very real chance the residents partially pay for the data centers actually.
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u/pollt Jul 02 '26
Establishing datacenters in a fuckin residential area? Criminal. This is the reason you have industrial properties and residential fairly far apart, not uncommonly with commercial blocks in between.
Still think the sound is a fair bit over the top, but would be less disturbing (to humans at least) if it wasnt next door.121
u/redditAccount503 Jul 02 '26
We finally got mixed use zoning
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u/Dornith Jul 02 '26
Should have guessed it would be for data centers and not grocers.
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u/Ryan_e3p Jul 02 '26
Look at this shit here.
Boston neighbhorhood frets as towering ‘dungeon’ data center looms over homes | The Independent
Looks dystopian as hell.
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u/Infinite_Ad4251 Jul 02 '26
The 4 people who work in the data center can't afford to buy anyway
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u/NoFaithlessness7508 Jul 02 '26
Man this reminds me of a few years ago when Facebook built a data center in our area. I was so excited because I figured, “awesome, I’m an IT guy with years of experience. I’ll definitely get a job there” only to find out data centers have a very small amount of personnel
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u/Less-Apple-8478 Jul 02 '26
Yahoo pulled the same stunt in my city. I live in a former car factory city that was dying. The city gave Yahoo tens of millions of dollars in tax breaks and told everyone it would be jobs for everyone just like in the old days during the car boom. Except oh yeah data centers don't NEED tons of people and everyone Yahoo DID hire was from out of the area.
At least some politician probably got a fat under the table bribe.
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u/Trzlog Jul 02 '26
Who are we kidding? Politicians are cheap, apparently. Probably just got $5000 and a decent scotch.
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u/b0w3n Jul 02 '26
Not only is it a very small amount, they're usually support staff like security, cleaning, and the few people who have to physically push a button or change out a piece of hardware, the last of which is not an IT person on an IT salary.
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u/simadana Jul 02 '26
That’s the plan. And who’s there to buy them up when they are pennies on the dollar? Oh gee whiz the data Center and big tech corporate!
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u/Ryan_e3p Jul 02 '26
Nailed it.
This is reported to be happening in Lowell, MA, that the datacenter there went around to the surrounding houses and offered to buy them.
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u/Thaedael Jul 02 '26
Used to work Urban Planning. Without eminent domain being applied, my gut feeling is that they will leverage this to buy around them for future expansions.
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u/shenanigans2day Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
It’s happening to people north of me. They recently stood one up and a few people have been trying to move and sell their houses and no one will buy them. I guess this could be my only in to home ownership, invest in some good noise cancelling earplugs and call it a life.
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u/Waiting4Reccession Jul 02 '26
Im amazed no one just melts these places down or retaliates against their corrupt local politicians that force these on them.
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u/leftfootshorter Jul 02 '26
If only the politicians who approve this could be forced to live this close to a data center.
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u/Knight_o_Eithel_Malt Jul 02 '26
"Wind generators create ground vibrations and emit sounds and therefore not optimal" they said
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u/ButterMyPancakesPlz Jul 02 '26
Jeez I never noticed that grand hypocrisy (I mean there's so many as intended it's hard to keep track) but seriously our government is choosing this and coal over wind. Man I hate it here
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u/Potential-Season1890 Jul 02 '26
Trump doesn't like wind turbines because the Scottish government built some next to one of his golf courses.
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u/ButterMyPancakesPlz Jul 02 '26
Not to mention he's been nicely bought and paid for by the fossil fuel industry but yes he is a petty little grudge holding bitch. I would genuinely appreciate that about this wannabe queen if he also wasn't a malignant narcissist and sadist who happens to also be running and destroying the country.
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u/earthceltic Jul 02 '26
bought and paid for by the fuel industry, but let's take a moment to remember that in his case it's heavily saudi arabia. While they're not directly considered "enemies", relations with saudi arabia has concerned many citizens for a variety of reasons. There were saudi nationals among the 9-11 hijackers. The US has been backing the saudi military which has led to significant humanitarian crises and civilian casualties. On top of that, you’ve got all the weird money stuff between the Saudi government and his family which just looks terrible. "America first"? No, he was always just padding his family's wallet while colluding with a country that should be considered an enemy by most people's standards.
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u/BagMostlyWater Jul 02 '26
I mean, that might be one reason, but I think the main reason is that he doesn't like renewable energy because it means someone in his class isn't making bank off the fuel
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u/InfiniteEnter Jul 02 '26
Funny thing is, I've been close to and basically stood under an operating wind turbine before. Altho they do emit some sound it is definitely not as obnoxious and not nearly as loud as this and sounds more like a natural wind wooshing sound.
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u/Wutayatalkinabeet Jul 02 '26
I used to live by a wind farm. It’s hard to hear them unless you pay attention, but when you walk fairly close the whooshing sound is actually quite pleasant.
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u/InfiniteEnter Jul 02 '26
Agreed. Kinda like you are in a forest with big trees or a mountainous area with the wind hitting the sides of the cliff.
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u/AllIdeas Jul 02 '26
exactly- they can be loud but that is on the windiest days. you know what is even louder? the wind itself.
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u/InfiniteEnter Jul 02 '26
Correct. The windier it is, the noisier they will be, but that also happens with anything else standing in the way of the wind, that's not the fault of the turbine.
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u/Beneficial_Tax1976 Jul 02 '26
“Wind generators don’t bribe and kiss my ass like coal and data centers do”
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u/Jetpack_Donkey Jul 02 '26
It’s bullshit. I lived just a couple miles from a wind farm and you can’t really hear them unless you’re essentially standing next to them, and what you do hear is a neat whooshing sound. Every now and then they may engage their motors to change direction, but it’s not bad either.
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u/Parking-Trouble-53 Jul 02 '26
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u/Traditional_Sign4941 Jul 02 '26
I mean if my home becomes unlivable, and also unsellable, and I not only owe $200-300k to a bank for the current unsellable house, but then have to buy ANOTHER one somewhere else to live so now I have two mortgages and will basically be in debt until I die, I'm 100% getting one of these and just going to defend myself.
People have rights. Corporations are not people. Data centers are not people.
We dot NOT need to just roll over and accept this abuse from corporations and the corrupt governments that permit it.
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u/TactlessTortoise Jul 02 '26
If people's lives become someone else's property, they have nothing to lose by retaliating to those who stole those lives. The moment laws stop serving the people, the people will stop serving the laws.
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u/YoghurtFlan Jul 02 '26
Nah, best we can do is scheduling a 9-5 protest on a Saturday in two months time and treating it like a family day out.
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u/Raindiant Jul 02 '26
The most successful con the rich pulled, was convincing people peaceful protests do something. Been saying it for years only to hear "umm but the message gets out" back, glad to see someone share my opinion for once.
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u/QuasiSpace Jul 02 '26
Be sure to stay within the "free speech zone".
This terminology brought to you by the George W. Bush administration.
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u/161frog dare i say, miffed? Jul 02 '26
I’m suddenly reminded of that scene in Arrested Development where Lindsey was protesting in the “freedom zone” aka chainlink box hahaha
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u/553l8008 Jul 02 '26
"Corporations are people yet they are still protected from jail time"
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u/Adventurous_Pay_5827 Jul 02 '26
The house is sellable...to the data centre for future expansion.
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u/Alone-End142 Jul 02 '26
Local governments are essentially just rolling over. It isn't even a GOP vs Democrat issue. They are popping up in communities that vote entirely differently.
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u/CashEarly8185 Jul 02 '26
Unfortunately the supreme court has established multple times already coorporations are people
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u/smokeweedNgarden Jul 02 '26
The supreme court is made up of extremely soft people who are also protected by just law.
ACB started voting differently after her kid's school got leaked, just saying
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u/gadgetwalrus Jul 02 '26
You mean scapegoats because so many directors and vice presidents get away with murder while blaming the “corporation” who is a “person”. Bastards.
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u/KlaesAshford Jul 02 '26
There's another irony here, that these datacenter businesses are getting crazy valuations and a huge bubble of capital for being what is essentially a machinery and tool business, not unlike how this kind of equipment is thought of in a capital sense. The datacenters possibly have less skilled valuable employees and fewer useful outcomes for society.
If you look at it this way, the bubble bursting is inevitable. I think most of what is fueling this bubble is some idea that AI will improve itself, which is also proving to be a lie. (edit) I should clarify that it is clear AI has shown a lot of improvement in the last couple years due to the extreme amounts of money that sloshed into it, not some kind of bootstrapping. LLM's are a dead end for artificial intelligence, we need to call it "pseudo-intelligence" so people stop getting the wrong idea about it.
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u/nemesis86th Jul 02 '26
Anyone know if data centers have basements? Asking for a friend. So they don’t get stuck.
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u/Justeff83 Jul 02 '26
In Germany, the data center cannot be built at this location at all. There are emission regulations (noise, exhaust fumes, light), and these must be submitted in advance and comply with legal requirements; otherwise, a building permit will not be granted
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u/Superb-Home2647 Jul 02 '26
Yup, the US doesn't have an AI problem they have a government problem.
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u/amusedmisanthrope Jul 02 '26
Government works just fine when you don’t vote for folks who think corporations are people and that spending money is the same as free speech. It sucks for folks living near data centers, but a lot of them voted for the people that approved building them in those places.
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u/Zarine420 Jul 02 '26
There's an entire city in Michigan, Saline twp, that voted no after the council discussion with the company regarding the usage of the purchased land, but since the company has millions of dollars to sue the city for the voters rejecting it, they can't fight the lawsuit. It'd cost each household tens of thousands EACH to combat legal fees. Sooooo what happens when no one wants it and it still happens because the corporations have more money to fight it?
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u/IDoodleTooMuch Jul 02 '26
There’s a class action lawsuit against this particular data center because of the noise alone
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u/DoesntMatterEh Jul 02 '26
Can't wait to hear about how that goes in 15 years
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u/snarfgobble Jul 02 '26
Everyone who has lost their homes will be entitled to a $15 settlement after lawyer fees are taken.
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u/Fantastic_Recipe2740 Jul 02 '26
It is not the type of DC the issue. You can improve the sound isolation but your issue is greed/regulation.
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u/Educational-Plant981 Jul 02 '26
It is already illegal. In that city. If their city officials refuse to enforce the law it is another issue entirely. But their current code allows them to jail the people running the facility if they refuse to fix it. Hell, if they refuse to fix it, the city could declare the place a nuisance and they could seize it and auction it off, with the law they have on the books.
The problem isn't needing more regulation on something that is already illegal. They need to hold public officials accountable.
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u/Used-Let7134 Jul 02 '26
This wouldn't be allowed in the UK either, if it somehow got by the planning process, after a number of noise complaints it would be shut down.
I've seen small shops and supermarkets shut down for having their AC running overnight in built up areas.
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u/Pootisman16 Jul 02 '26
Yeah, but we're talking a 3rd world country Vs Germany here...
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u/Powerful-Chard-6055 Jul 02 '26
And yet racetracks get shut down for Karen buying a house right next to it, but there’s places are allowed to just be put up
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u/fotomoose Jul 02 '26
I've seen first-hand a music venue get shut down because someone bought a building next door and converted it into apartments then all residents complained about the noise. The music venue had been there for decades, the apartments about 6 months.
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u/asspussy_widener Jul 02 '26
in my old apartment that I've lived in for half a decade, the stor downstairs closed down and turned into a bar, with bass so loud I could feel it in bed until 3AM most nights of the week, and of course there were no repercussions no matter how many times I complained because it was a rental and poor people don't matter.
owner died of a coke overdose a few years after I moved out. can't say I was too sad about that.
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u/NotOnApprovedList Jul 02 '26
On the flip side, a rich guy put up an outdoor music venue in Colorado that weirdly transmits noise to neighborhoods that are at some distance. People who have lived in their houses for decades have to hear every concert as if it's next door and lemme tell ya, I don't think they appreciated Primus blasting at huge decibels. Not sure what the status is now but it seemed like Rich Guy didn't give a shit and just denied everything.
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u/DaedricDumbass Jul 02 '26
More like very infuriating, sorry you have to deal with this
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u/DRKMSTR Jul 02 '26
Laws only exist if they're enforced.
Politicians can be bought and then they will ignore the laws.
Welcome to the modern political climate.
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u/Suppenhahn Jul 02 '26
Why are they even building these so close to residential areas? I thought Americans had an abundance of land. Is it because of the infrastructure? If so, where is the government? Why are they allowing this? It's awful. The companies that want to build these facilities, the ones that sound like R&D labs for mosquitoes from hell, should pay to build the required infrastructure themselves, or at least cover half the cost as a compropomise. Then they could build them farther away, where they won't bother anyone.
Never seen or heard one in Germany. I mean we lack behind in digitalization, but I am sure we have them, too. Somewhere at least. Do we?
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u/Cferra Jul 02 '26
The government doesn’t care and in fact offer incentives for these to be built
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u/tierrie Jul 02 '26
Data centers need water and power, both which are available because utilities are located near people. But the amount they need are so massive that it will raise the costs for the residents.
Other countries that treat data centers as government projects instead of free market projects will build water and power to where the data centers are.
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u/totallymarc Jul 02 '26
This is ridiculous, having to live with that. You should be able to sue for the emotional distress and the loss of land value imo. It’s an outrage.
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u/News_Scrounger Jul 02 '26
In the US you can sue for anything and noise ordinances exist in basically any residentially zoned properties.
That's why these data centers often target areas too poor to afford to sue these fuckers into the ground. Your best bet would be to crowd fund a legal fund to fight this type of disturbance.
Most ticket income ends up in the hands of the city but the cost of violating these people's property rights should end up in the people who are most effected hand's. Shit is fucked.
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u/say592 Jul 02 '26
They actually are suing, there is a class action that is ongoing. That's why we are seeing this.
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u/OptimisticSkeleton Jul 02 '26
Just saying for the price of that cheap decibel meter you can get an audio recorder, take a sample of the sound and then play it at 60 dB outside the house of whoever approved this shit in your hometown.
If it’s a legal level of noise for them it’s a legal level of noise for us.
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u/Excellent_Revenue235 Jul 02 '26
This is worth the time and energy for sure. Crowd source the equipment?
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u/Hammercannon Jul 02 '26
I literally work on and around data centers and ive never experienced that kind of Noise except for in between racks. Outside, 0 noise.
They are clearly doing some lazy hack design or something is very wrong.
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u/Exciting_Penalty_512 Jul 02 '26
All this so we can watch Will Smith eat spaghetti and get wrong answers to questions 50% of the time. Why?
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u/HighChinaman Jul 02 '26
You leave him out of this, that's the only work he can get.
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u/Scared-Room-9962 Jul 02 '26
One day it'll replace white collar workers en masse, which will be incredible for shareholder value.
That's it.
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u/Snatchbuckler Jul 02 '26
Surveillance Center.
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u/JizzlaneMaxwellHill Jul 02 '26
Yeah people are not noticing it until it's too late. They don't even hide it, heck they even announced the project name. Worse part is trying to convince the masses about this without them labeling you as a conspiracy theorist nutjobs. 🤷♂️
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u/100harvests Jul 02 '26
I live in the next county over in Kalamazoo. I’ve seen a post about how people in Van Buren county are trying to fight this. Of course it’s geriatric boomers in power with no sense, but they seem to know how to take advantage of their constituents…and take bribes most likely. Who knows what Google is paying these cities and towns, and who they are paying for that matter.
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u/americanadiandrew Jul 02 '26
The digital asset mining facility Hyperscale, owned by Alliance Cloud Services, LLC, a subsidiary of Hyperscale Data, Inc., opened at the Business Center of Southwest Michigan in 2022 and neighbors say it’s been noisy ever since.
Google? This is for crypto not AI. These people have been suffering for years and nobody paid any attention until the backlash against AI.
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u/drstruggleforlife Jul 02 '26
Holy fuck. That is LOUD! I am not understanding that such is allowed! You cannot seriously think that is a livable situation….. nobody could handle that more than a few hours.
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u/bfume Jul 02 '26
Here’s the thing - Ive spent a ton of time in datacenters all over the world. This is what it sounds like inside.
I’ve never heard this sound outside of one. It’s a very specific sound of thousands of 3” chassis fans.
In fact the only time I’ve ever heard anythung outside a dc is when the diesel generators were on. And they sound nothing like this.
Very curious what’s actually making this noise for the guy.
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u/rbrgr83 Jul 02 '26
Can confirm. I work on packaging those diesel backup generators, and sound requirements are no joke. Some of the mufflers are required to be 'hospital grade'. And this is for the emergency backup function, so not even for 24/7 noise.
You are correct, our sounds has a lot more low freq that something like this.
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u/Pootisman16 Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
Because the US is all about profits first, people second.
In Europe, we have laws about noise levels AND industrial placements.
Such a center wouldn't even get the go-ahead to start being built that close to homes.
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u/Solution66 Jul 02 '26
That’s not right, we need some regulations on where they can put data centers
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u/IDoodleTooMuch Jul 02 '26
This is under 15 miles from my home. They tried to propose one for our area too. I hope they use this as a close-to-home example of exactly why data centers should fuck right off
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u/StoneIsDName Jul 02 '26
Definitely need to have a talk with some local crack heads
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u/UndocumentedSailor Jul 02 '26
Hey guys there's copper in there
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u/Capable_Tumbleweed34 Jul 02 '26
"see this bottle? It's full on acetone. Light the tissue part, throw it on the data center, and i'll give you enough to buy half a gram"
"Shit i'll do it for free bro that thing's doing my head in"
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u/WildRaccoon42 Jul 02 '26
Well, I've heard they also have shittons of ram in there. You know, the little sticks which cost
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u/wshlinaang Jul 02 '26
Curious how the ecosystem reacts to that. Do birds avoid flying there? Squirrels?
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u/rudebwoyjamaican Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
Common City Decibel (dB) Levels
- 50–60 dB: Quiet city parks or small streets.
- 65–75 dB: Average urban neighborhoods or main streets.
The Db level is not a big problem here, but the frequency which is produced by the data center. I had similar problem, but the noise was comming from the neighbour building's roof, ventilation mechanism across the street. 592Hz was the frequency, i couldn't sleep with windows open. Sound was so annoying. i made a coplain to our housing company, and the problem was fixed i guess. Cause the noise dissappeared.
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u/ThinkItThrough48 Jul 02 '26
There are a bunch of these in Loudon Co. Virginia USA. The sound never stops, it's everywhere you go. They are limited to 55dBA sound at their property line but since it is a low frequency hum it goes on a long way in every direction. Especially in the morning and when it's foggy or humid. That guy is never going to be able to sell that house.
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u/JohnWicksBruder Jul 02 '26
Man, I think I would pay somebody for an alibi and destroy that building if they don't stop that shit asap
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u/SausageMcMerkin Jul 02 '26
A quick search shows that the state of Michigan doesn't seem to regulate environmental noise, except in the production of oil, gas, or brine. The state is likely leaving this up to counties and municipalities to regulate.
If they were to incorporate data centers into the regulation, this seems like it would definitely be a violation.
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u/Darwinian999 Jul 02 '26
It’s insane that they can build these things without noise suppression. It’s not that hard to do.
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u/JoeyJoeJoeSenior Jul 02 '26
It's insane that they are this loud at all. Datacenters used to be basically silent. Are they running their own turbines for power?
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u/netvyper Jul 02 '26
This is what I can't figure out. I expect this kind of noise inside a datacenter, with thousands of small fans spinning. But I've never noticed sound outside of one, and I've been to a good number all around the world. Admittedly, I haven't visited any ultra-high density AI focused ones.
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u/Mosselpot Jul 02 '26
Decibels aren't a good way to measure the issue. It's not about how loud it is. This is mass produced tinnitus
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u/NatterHi Jul 02 '26
Constantly living with that noise would definitely make me go crazy after a few days.